The Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School found in a study last year that between 2016 and 2017, a dozen national environmental grant-makers awarded $1.34 billion to organizations in the Gulf and Midwest regions. Of that total, however, just $18 million—a paltry 1.3%—went to groups focused on environmental justice, leaving them chronically underfunded…
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Thousands of households in Madera, Fresno, Tulare and Kings counties that fell behind on their water bills are at risk of a lien on their property and potential water shutoffs…
More than 7,000 people signed a petition submitted Wednesday asking Kern’s Board of Supervisors and Gov. Gavin Newsom to halt the county’s push to reinstate streamlined oil permitting…
COVID-19 pulled back the veil on farmworker conditions. We need to better safeguard the health of the people who feed our nation…
As the Biden administration wrestles with implementing a stack of executive orders on climate change, the president will be proceeding without someone environmentalists see as one of the most skilled and effective regulatory tacticians in the country: Mary Nichols…
Agricultural operators Valley-wide are invited to apply for grants to purchase low dust harvesters and reduce particulate matter emissions, which result from nut harvesting activities in the San Joaquin Valley…
Funding for environmental organizations isn’t equitably distributed to communities of color. A study led by New School researchers found that between 2016 and 2017, only 1.3 percent of grants given to environmental groups in the Gulf and Midwest went to organizations dedicated to environmental justice…
The Biden administration has committed to a historically ambitious climate agenda. We can expect a profound shift in U.S. federal climate policy — from one of continued domestic rollbacks and international disengagement, to one of forward progress and cooperation…
Another clash of opinions is all but assured next week as a revised environmental review central to Kern’s efforts to reinstate streamlined local oil permitting heads for a public hearing in front of the county Planning Commission…
The centrality of racial and economic justice to the Biden administration’s climate agenda and to vital policy platforms like the Green New Deal represent a profound shift in the direction of climate policy and activism…